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Colin E. Braley / AP
Senator Orrin Hatch, along with his wife Elaine, thanks his supporters after his primary win Tuesday night.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch accomplished Tuesday night what few other veteran Republican senators have done in recent years, managing to fend off a primary challenge from his right.
The Associated Press declared Hatch the projected winner of the Utah Republican Senate nomination, emerging victorious in the first primary the veteran senator had faced since first being elected in 1976.
Conservatives had targeted Hatch for defeat this cycle, throwing their support behind state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, who hoped the Tea Party wave that has caused heartburn for establishment Republicans would carry him to victory versus Hatch.
Beating Hatch would have marked a significant changing of the guard in Utah, one of the most deeply Republican states, where the GOP primary serves often as the de-facto general elections. Conservatives managed to deny longtime Utah Sen. Robert Bennett (R) renomination during the 2010 elections. Mike Lee rallied conservative activists to deny Bennett the GOP nod, and was subsequently elected to the Senate that fall.
Hatch had seemed to have learned the lessons of that campaign, working assiduously to secure his conservative flank and building a warchest to beat back a Tea Party challenge.
He tacked to the right in tone and on certain key votes, locking up endorsements from talk radio favorites and even former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who’s more often than not endorsed challengers to established Republican lawmakers than the incumbents themselves.
Hatch's re-election strategy offered a roadmap for entrenched Republicans looking to fend off a conservative challenge. The Utah senator's approach broke, for example, from that of Sen. Richard Lugar's. The Indiana senator had largely been defiant of Tea Party forces, and lost a primary to State Treasurer Richard Mourdock earlier this year. Both Hatch and Lugar took office in 1977.
The early and aggressive effort by Hatch included an attempt to scare off would-be challengers before they even entered the race. The senator was particularly public in taking on two-term Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who had been viewed as a potentially formidable challenger but ultimately declined to run for Senate.
A major trump card for Hatch, though, came in the form of Mitt Romney. Perhaps no endorsement for Hatch was more important than Romney’s, who is held in high esteem in Utah due to his own Mormon faith, as well as the work Romney had done in 2002 to turn around the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Romney appeared with Hatch in Utah earlier this month to underscore his support for the longtime senator.
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Shame on You Orin Hatch, You used to advocate for Term Limits and Once You became a Career Politician your Voice fell silent. Term Limits, One and Done, Representatives, Senators and President, One Five Year Term, Do the Job and Go Back Home and Go To Work, Same benefits as the Population, No OverPaid Retirement, Return to Being a Producer Rather Than a Parasite.
All I can say to the people of Utah is, "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life here."
Some of these responses prove that there are still a lot of stupid people out there who will still vote for Obama. I was a Deocrat for over 30 years but after the past three years I would not vote for them to save my life. Obama, Polosi, Reed, Janet, Holder and lunch bucket Joe have to go because they are against the true Americans. I don't care to much for Romeny but I will vote for him because this Country needs to clean house, lock the boarders down and stop making us pay for the ones that wont pay there own way, working the system. There are people out there who do honestly need help but at the same time I woould be willing to bet that the majority of them are just lazy or think that we owe them. I also do not think it is right for people to be able to walk over the boarder and expect free bees, turn them around and put a foot were the sun don't shine.
tea baggers+Romney+ 30 year "Deocrat"= "true Americans" self hating mess
We need even more crooks like rangel then huh tman? It is harry reid that does not even let 30 plus bills come up for a debate or vote and you idiots call republicans do nothings? You socialist lib democratic pukes have not even PUT UP a stinking budget in over 1200 days even with total control of ALL 3 BRANCHES! Yeh, blame it on the tea party since democrats could not MAN-UP to a single thing that has put this country in the dire condition it is now! I expect your next post to have something about Bush which you libs have the responsibility of a pile of dung!
@Murphy Andrew......its time for your medication buddy!
truth hurts, huh manny! What is NOT truthfull above and it just shows ignorance with that stupidity you spew!
so long as your not bitter! lol
Wow. Pathetic braindead right wing nuts fighting off psychotic radical right wing cracked teanuts. The Mormon Morons were swayed by lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch Champion. The Sanitarium backers lost.
All braindead pathetic right wing radical cracked teanuts should listen to your leaders.
Rick the Dick Santarium has brainwashed his followers, the evangelical Children of the Corn zombies and the gay rapist, pedophile catholic priests that lyin Willardo is a member of an evil cult and is the anti-christ. He also told them that lyin Willardo is the worst person in history to ever run for the presidency, can't be trusted and will destroy our country. Groper Nutquist, the boss of the right wing cracked teanuts and Nut Gingerhead, the criminal lobbyist, totally agreed with the last three assessments.
So most of the evangelical sheep will probably stay home on election day or some may even vote for Obama. They are totally scared to death of lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch champion.
hamm,,,when it comes to you, i have seen better heads on flat beer! obama holder lies and people still die! No puke obama 2012!
Murphy Android, a true repukenoid idiot, but it is understandable.
Repukenoid: You really sound like you had your brain destroyed when you were a little vermin.
When you saw your local right wing gay, pedophile rapist priest to confess to him that you were an idiot, he gave you two liberal Girl Scout cookies to calm you down. Then he told you to turn around, face the wall, drop your pants and bend over. Being the stupid little vermin that you were, you thought that you would see an image of Jesus in the wall. The two hard shots that you took from him really destroyed your brain. Now you blame the liberal Girl Scouts for your problems.
It wasn't worth the two cookies was it.
hamm, sounds to me like you are the one with an infacuation with pedo's, children and nasty things! Them two last brain cells you have left from your "occupy party" fighting with each other again?
President Obama is great!!!
Great liar,thief, social;ist, America basher, at spending taxpayer money, spending time on the golf course, passing blame, doing ANYTHING or saying ANYTHING for a vote, providing guns to drug cartels, appointing complete boobs to high office or Czars,to sue states for trying to do the job he swore by oath to do! Ya want more? Yeh, he is great allright,,,and so are the #'s he will lose the election by!
Murphy Android: A typical, braindead repukenoid idiot.
Any senior or anyone else on medicare who votes for a pathetic, psychotic, facist repuke for president is cutting their own throat. Your medicare costs will go up about $6,000 a year, and your secondary insurance will skyrocket. This is according to the CBO. The National Council of Bishops who support the lying repukes only because of abortion, have highly criticized the Ryan voucher plan as being cruel and harsh and can't support it. It gives an average $250,000 tax cut to millionaires while cutting medicare.
There is a group of nuns traveling around the country who call themeselves "Nuns on a Bus". Their goal is to correct all the false information and lies spread by Paul Ryan that his plan is going help anyone but the wealthiest 2%. They also claim the the Ryan plan is a disaster for the poor and needy people in this country and that you should vote against the republicans.
Once the medicare funds get into the hands of the repukes corporate criminal backers, it will be destroyed.
Repukes are typical right wing dunces that listen to Fox Lies with Eric Bowleggs, David Asswipes and The Sludge. Even Miss Piggy has more brains than these braindead repukes, as she knows that Faux News is only a pretend news channel and is only a poor excuse for a comedy channel.
There had to be a reason that Rick the Dick Sanitarium and Nut Gingerhead, the criminal lobbyist both agreed that lyin Willardo is the worst person to ever run for president in U.S. history, that he can't be trusted and will destroy our country.
They both brought Etch A Sketch boards to their news conferences to prove their points.
Obama is just another corporatist. Look at the BP debacle and his response.
President Obama is the best President we have ever had since the birth of this great country!!!
to date, this is possibly the only decent thing Romney has done,,,,,,is it at all possible that he understands the negative influence the tea party has on his party??????? Is it possible he understands that the right is headed to their ruin if his party continues it's extreme right wing politics?????? Nah, it has to be something else.
Can you imagine what might have happened if the Pope's boy Sanitarium became president, or even V.P. under lyin Willardo, the tax evader, of the right wing radical cracked teanuts, the gay, rapist, pedophile catholic priests and the braindead evangelical Children of the Corn zombies. Men will no longer have to purchase condoms, as they will no longer be allowed in this country. All mens sperm must be used to create babies. Cameras will be in every bedroom. Catholic priests don't have to worry however, because, according to the testimony of former raped little boys, they don't use them.
I think Sanitarium is in desperate need of a vaginal ultrasound to find out what happened to his brains.
The Pope's first order to his boy would be to release all catholic rapist pediophile priests from prison as the Pope is running out of people to continue the process of shearing his sheep. He is running out of collection pot fillers. After all, he needs the money to fight off all of the lawsuits against the church worldwide.
His second order to RickyDickyDo would be to move the White House to Vatican City.
Teas baggers are nut baskets to begin with, the people are just finally recognizing their lunacy.
It's because people like Hatch keep getting re-elected time after time, that no change is ever going to happen in America, no matter who is President
Hatcher has done some good work in the past, so what is the problem? Some people dont like the Tea Party, who cares. it's better than those asswipes in PETA! LOL
Yeah you just adore the misanthrope party, what a humanitarian.
How great that ANOTHER 80-something year old is occupying space in the Senate. Ever hear of RETIRING??? But I guess that would mean having to pay for your OWN servants INSTEAD OF THE gOVT ONES WHO SHINE YER SHOES, WAX YER AZZZZZ AT THE cONGRESSIONAL gYM, SERVE YOUR COCKTAILS IN THE tEDDY kENNEDY sENATE lOUNGE, cook your Kobe beef at the Senate Grill, drive your Limo and open doors for your old hag wife.
Sorry, at least people like Hatch work for the people far more than the tea-bagger nut jobs. Hatch has had the courage to reach across the aisle unlike many of his obstructionist counterparts.
This is a win for the country and the Republican Party, but I doubt they'll see it through the haze of their hatred.
Even lyin Willardo's father knew what he would be like when he grew up So he gave him his first name "Willardo" after the large movie rat. He gave him his middle name after an old baseball glove that they found in the family outhouse that was full of shxt. They shortened lyin Willardo's first name to Willard and their last name from Robberos to Romney when the smuggled little lyin Willardo over here from his birthplace in Tijuana.
He is now known by most people as Mitt Robme, the outsourcer in chief.
Love the headline, "Survives" Did not this race go down like 63% to 37%? You would think the race was close by the headline used, but alas another poorly written article missing the actual important facts. Let's consider the source, once again.
... I have to laugh to hear Dick Lugar, who came in with Hatch in 1977, was put out to pasture. His "pasture" exceeds an extravagant retirement and EAR-MARKS" at the cost to WE taxpayers. One ear-mark was a $ 1 million per year from ETHANOL, a "useless" fuel additive that mr. green aka Al Gore and well over 1 thousand farmers also benefit from at our expense.
...TERM LIMITS, RESCINDING BENEFITS WOULD BRING THIS STORY TO A HAPPY ENDING.
God Bless America... AGAIN... SOON...
Lyin Willardo, the Clueless Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch Sketch Champion may be the worst repuke dunce of all. This guy has yet to provide his tax returns for the last 5 years. It should show how much he has evaded in taxes and how much unreported income he has stashed away in Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts. He is your typical right wing thief.
There have been many rumors going around that little lyin Willardo was seen in a baby carriage in Tijuana. with a bottle of Corona Light in one hand and an Etch A Sketch in the other. The side of his carriage had the name "Little Lyin Willardo" on it. So when we see the long form of his birth certificate and it says Willardo on it and not Willard, we will know something is wrong.
Isn't it funny, that his new buddy Fox Top Trump never asked lyin Willardo for a copy of the form of it?
What a joke. Less and less of the stupid right wing nuts come out to back lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader and bankrupter and they rave about it. As most people know, the evangelicals consider the mormons an evil anti-christ cult. The mormons have been converting dead jewish people, without their knowledge to become mormons to enhance their religion. They baptise them when they are dead. These sick aholes were caught when they tried to convert Anne Frank to be a mormon. The Church of the Latter Day Saints has now ordered these mormon priests to cease this immediately.
These repuke dunces best bet is to bring back Herman (9Kampf) Cain, the dress slitherer. He can draft Jerry Sandusky for V.P. Who cares what they have done in the past, they are against abortion, that is all that counts.
CAIN/SANDUSKY 2012. The true repuke family values candidates.
Wouldn't it be reported if it's on his tax return?
He did not release the last 5 years of his tax returns to show that it was never reported. Supposedly he closed the accounts before he announced that he was going to run for president. Unnamed bankers in these two countries sent information in to the IRS and FBI that lyin Willardo had numbered accounts in their banks.
" It should show" You say Hamm1. What if it doesn't show? Will you retract your acusations and tell everyone you were mistaken? Please tell us all how having off shore interest bearing accounts helps one not pay income taxes ? The IRS has everybodies tax return, right? Including Mitt's right? Going way back, right? Don't you think the IRS would have done audits in the past if they thought something was not correct with Mitt's or any other person American's Tax return filing? Thanks for showing your ignorance too on "Mormon Priest" Young men may become a Priest at age 16. Baptisms for the dead are performed by individual members, not Priest as you so put it. Just for the record, direct decendants of Jewish holocaust victims may have these baptisms done for their relatives and that is part of the agreement made between the two faiths. Interesting how this point is left out when people like you make ignorant comments. Just because a baptism is done, does not mean it takes any affect. That is for the person for whom it was performed for to decide concerning that Ordinance. You don't have to believe in the practice, but please at least state the practice correctly.
@Buckeyenut, don't be a simpleton. You can file a return and still evade taxes, by not claiming all income and/or inflating deductions.
Please leave the half truths and false conclusions to Faux News.
I seriously doubt that an endorsement by Romney helped. I suspect intelligent Republicans have finally noticed that the Tea Baggers are all about revenge and spite, without a positive thought to offer.
The man has been a senator nearly MY entire life. Something is wrong with that.
My sympathies.
Senator Hatch is a Republican I can deal with. He is old school and knows how to meet in the middle. (SOME WHAT) The Teatards are whats REALLY wrong with the legislative process today. They have taken hostage of are government to at all cost's "starve the beast". This tactic needs to be lesson of what we should not do. GET RID of SUPER PACT groups and Special Interest Folks like Sara Palin they are IDIOTS and have no place in deciding our future. She can't even finish a term has a Governor.
This is the only guy that might be able to beat Obama, but when the repukes got done lying about him, you might think he was Satan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udzymvKOyCY&feature=related
Here is how Sister Sarah, the great American Zero, can help us invade Syria and attack the Syrian Government. She can be part of the invasion force. Draft dodging Lyin Willardo and John McCain want to invade Syria.
We have to attack the radical Islamists before it is too late, without putting our soldiers in harms way.
The best way is to send the right wing radical cracked teanuts over there to fight. First let Sister Sara attack from the front in her helicopter gunship where she is experienced in shooting wolves from the air with her blazing AK47, turns them into instant wolfburgers. Then get the other dunce, the flying witch from Delaware, Christine O Donnell. to attack their flanks using her rocket powered, heavily armed broomstick. Then the macho nut Rick Sanitarium can get his boss, the Pope's boys, the rapist, pedophile catholic priests to attack from the rear. John (town cryer) Bonehead and Mitch McDumbell can direct operations. Groper Nutquist could be the sniper, as all he has to do is lift the lid from his trash can and fire away.
Harold Camping, the evangelical king, can assist by getting the 500,000 or so braindead evangelical Children of the Corn, that he brainwashed to give up all of their worldly possessions to go meet and stay with the man in the sky. These zombies would not care if they died because they would finally get to meet and stay with the man in the sky. Camping can supply them with bibles to throw at the Islamists with some of the millions he bilked these fools out of.
If they still need more help, we can recruit the right wing centrists: the abortion clinic bombers, federal building bombers, abortion doctor killers and the radical right wing southern anthrax spreaders. With this army of right wing nuts and Jesus Freaks, we save our real army for another day.
Ron (Puke) Paul can preach liberty to the Islamics and Muslims who he loves. Maybe lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader can get some of his buddies that he grew up with in Tijuana to volunteer to help also.
Any prisoners that are taken can be sent to Nut Gingerheads 2 trillion dollar moon colony on an unihabitable planet. There is no atmosphere there, so no oxygen and only traces of water. It is hotter than boiling water there during the day and it goes down to 160 degrees below zero at night. In fact, it so nice there, that we should also send the 4 repuke clowns that want to be president there also. Ron (Puke) Paul can preach liberty to the men in the moon, lyin Willardo can establish an off planet moon bank to hide his money, Nut Gingerhead can destroy the moon peoples housing market, and the Pope's boy, Sanitarium can try to find work for his base, the rapist, pedophile catholic priests and braindead evangelical Children of the Corn.
If the right wing cracked teanuts want to beat Obama they need new candidates. Cain/Sandusky in 2012. These two are their best family values candidates. .Who cares what they did in the past, they are against abortion, that is all that counts to these nuts.
Red tie, white shirt and brown suit
Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.
New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square
You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.
humm? what!? where!? how!?
Not a republican but I am glad to see Hatch win. As an American, I hope the republican party wakes up and stops letting the Tea Party take their party hostage. It wasn't until the Tea Party emerge that those of us on the outside viewed them as a party for white men only. A party who hates blacks, hispanics, gays, muslims, or anyone who disagrees with them. The tea party is nothing more then an older college frat. They want to buck the system but does not know the meaning of being an adult. Compromise is not a dirty word. Until the adults in their party take back control this country is in trouble. People like Jan Brewer, Joe Walsh, and others really give your party a bad name. As a dem, I wouldn't mind if you keep going down this road. The demographics of this country is changing and the majority is becoming the minority. So if you want to be relevant going forward you better find a way to expand that tent. But I think they will stick to their robes and regret it in the future.
I agree. The Tea Party is very scary group- it is time the country started to wake up about them. Congrats Senator Hatch .
anita I agree, all that drug dealing, rapes, murders, and destruction of private property scared me also,,,,wait a minute,,,,that was not the tea party but the democrat sponsered "occupy" party that obama and piglosi endorsed! My bag,,,nevermind!!!
Right on brother jandrew121, the tide its slowly turning, and they know they it, minority will become the majority, but we need structure and unison, within our communites. The White Devil has used this weakness to keep us down for too long, dividing and conquering. Since the raping of the American Indians, through the bondage of slavery, Jim Crow's segregation and now the vilification and persecution of all non-white immigrants trough racial profiling of all sorts.
RISE UP!!! VOTE DEMOCRAT! UNITED! if so we will make the tea party look like a Little League's team. They can keep their booze and their guns, we will keep this country.